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Dr Ruth Erica Benesch

Reinhold and Ruth Erica Benesch made a key discovery that helped explain how hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells, carries oxygen from the lungs to all the cells in the body.

Gertrude B Elion

American biochemist and pharmacologist,who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Jacqueline Barton probes DNA by shooting electrons through it. Using custom-built molecules to direct these electrical currents, she can locate genes, see how they are arranged, and scan them for damage.
Barton hopes that these techniques will lead to new ways to diagnose diseases and treat them through DNA repair. To further this end she cofounded GeneOhm Sciences in 2001, which became part of Becton, Dickinson and Company in 2006.

Maxine Singer

Pioneering molecular biologist, influential science administrator, and leader in science policy and advocacy.

Rosalind Franklin

Chemist whose x-ray diffraction studies provided crucial clues to the structure of DNA and quantitatively confirmed the Watson-Crick DNA model

Pearl Dawson

Pearl Howard Dawson was a leading figure in the formative years of women’s team sports in New Zealand, particularly hockey, both as a player and administrator.

Margaret Buckingham

Distinguished British developmental biologist. Renowned for her work in myogenesis and cardiogenesis, Buckingham’s research focuses on how undifferentiated cells acquire tissue specificity during embryogenesis.

Rosalind Pitt-Rivers

Prominent British biochemist who made groundbreaking contributions to endocrinology

Kono Yasui

Japanese biologist and cytologist (scientist who studies cells) Kono Yasui became the first Japanese woman to receive a doctoral degree in science in 1927.

Isobel Bennett

Australian marine biologist, particularly renowned as a pioneer of coral reef biology.